Firecrawl Open-Sources 'pdf-inspector', a Rust-Based PDF Parser Hitting 0.002s Per Page
GrowthHackingEU · x · 2026-08-02
Firecrawl has open-sourced pdf-inspector, its high-speed PDF parsing engine designed to eliminate OCR bottlenecks for AI agents.
Key Features & Performance:
- Blazing Fast: Classifies any PDF in 20ms and parses pages in just 0.002s. A benchmark shows 200 PDFs processed in merely 2.8s.
- High-Quality Extraction: Delivers top-tier extraction for tables and graphs, outputting clean Markdown.
- Tech Stack: Built in Rust and runs locally, paired with custom OCR models.
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